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Telangana: Two ganja peddlers arrested

HYDERABAD: Chunchupalli police of Bhadradri Kothagudem district arrested two ganja peddlers and seized 4.5 quintals of contraband worth Rs 90 lakh on Monday night. The accused concealed the contraband between sheets of plywood to smuggle it to Maharashtra.

During a vehicle check at Brindavanam in Kothagudem town, Chunchupalli SI B Mahesh intercepted a Bolero pick-up truck going towards Khammam on Monday night.

Police arrested Shaik Shabbir, 32, driver of the vehicle from Sanjay Nagar in Aurangabad of Maharashtra and Mirza Baig, 56, a labourer from Shanti Nagar in Nizamabad. The duo confessed that as per the orders of Maharashtra-based ganja peddlers Javed and Rasool, they went to Sileru agency area in AP.

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